List of Famous people born on October 2nd

Cornelius O'Callaghan, 1st Viscount Lismore PC (I) was an Irish Whig politician.

Vere Essex Cromwell, 4th Earl of Ardglass PC (I), was an English nobleman, son of Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Ardglass and Elizabeth Meverell.

General William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, 1st Marquis of Campo Maior, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and politician. A general in the British Army and a Marshal in the Portuguese Army, he fought alongside The Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War and held the office of Master-General of the Ordnance in 1828 in Wellington's first ministry. He led the 1806 failed British invasion of Buenos Aires.

Jacques Duclos was a French Communist politician who played a key role in French politics from 1926, when he entered the French National Assembly after defeating Paul Reynaud, until 1969, when he won a substantial portion of the vote in the presidential elections.